Photo credit: Galaxid/Alamy The Guardian and BBC News report on Kendall Jones new paper in Current Biology, 'The Location and Protection Status of Earth's Diminishing Marine Wilderness'. Read The Guadian report here. Read the BBC News report here.

Photo Credit: JB Deffontaines James Watson writes about the recent science paper "One-third of global protected land is under intense human pressure" for Mongabay. Read the full Mongabay article here.

Photo credit: Joan de la Malla James Watson and co-authors write about their recent paper on the role of indigenous people in conservation. Read the paper in Nature Sustainability here. They find a quarter of all land outside Antarctica is owned by indigenous people, much of which is valuable for conservation and is already being managed for conservation. Read the full Conservation article here.

Stephen Garnett and James Watson write for National Geographic on the indigenous management and its role in global conservation. Read more here.

Climate change is shifting the ranges of species. Simple predictive metrics of range shifts such as climate velocity, that do not require extensive knowledge or data on individual species, could help to guide conservation. We review research on climate velocity, describing the theory underpinning the concept and its assumptions. We highlight how climate velocity has already been applied in conservation-related research, including climate residence time, climate refugia, endem

In an era of massive biodiversity loss, the greatest conservation success story has been the growth of protected land globally. Protected areas are the primary defense against biodiversity loss, but extensive human activity within their boundaries can undermine this. Using the most comprehensive global map of human pressure, we show that 6 million square kilometers (32.8%) of protected land is under intense human pressure. For protected areas designated before the Convention

Protected areas are central to global efforts to prevent species extinctions, with many countries investing heavily in their establishment. Yet the designation of protected areas alone can only abate certain threats to biodiversity. Targeted management within protected areas is often required to achieve fully effective conservation within their boundaries. It remains unclear what combination of protected area designation and management is needed to remove the suite of process

Mongabay interviews James Watson about his Nature Ecology & Evolution paper, 'Bold nature retention targets are essential for the global environment agenda'. Read more here.

Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change is a prerequisite for developing effective strategies to conserve them. The last three decades have seen exponential growth in the number of studies evaluating how, how much, why, when, and where species will be impacted by climate change. We provide an overview of the rapidly developing field of climate change vulnerability assessment (CCVA) and describe key concepts, terms, steps and considerations. We stress the importance

Military technologies accelerated the ability to navigate and find fish, leading to widespread overfishing and some rapid stock declines (Pauly et al. 2002). These technologies evolved into radar-based systems that enable near real-time observation of fishing vessels. Harvest rates increased dramatically with these technologies, but lack of basic monitoring and surveillance remains a major problem for global fisheries management (Beddington et al. 2007; Anticamara et al. 2011